他一直坚持写作，还模仿他人的短篇创作，直到他意识到：该停下笔来，多读点东西了。

All the while he wrote stories-derivative short ones-until he realised he needed to stop writing and read a lot more.

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报纸小故事供稿社退回的那二十来篇小故事还塞在桌子底下，他又翻出来读了一遍，想找出写作失败的原因。

Stored away under his table were the twenty storiettes which had been rejected by the newspaper short-story syndicate.

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过去20年，村上春树每天训练自己在早晨写作四五个小时，他还参加体育训练迎战每年的马拉松长跑，对他而言这两种训练没有什么差别。

To Marukami, training to write for four to five hours each morning was no different than training for the marathon that he's run every year for the past two decades.

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